How to Manage Burnout, Fear, and Uncertainty and Remain a Productive Engineer – Ep 257
In this episode, we talk to Zachary White, a career coach known for helping engineers, about the importance of work-life balance. He also provides some great tips to manage burnout, fear and uncertainty and remain a productive engineer. Engineering Quotes: Here Are Some of the Key Points Discussed About How to Manage Burnout, Fear, and […]
Getting Ahead of the Next Curve as a Leader and Team
What We Need to Know About Human Disaster Response and Trauma There is no doubt that we as leaders and team have been going through a season of much higher fear, anxiety, and trauma with the COVID-19 crisis and the very visual revealing of racial injustice and inequities previously ignored. Our stressors are also multifaceted […]
Take Action Despite Uncertainty
“Treat mistakes as learning, not failure” ~ Dan Sullivan “Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast” ~ Tom Peters “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas Edison “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill These quotes, and others like them, […]
3 Actions That Help You Lead Your Engineering Team Despite Fear
Here’s a topic not often discussed in the offices of the majority of leaders: FEAR. We’ll talk about risk, or problem’s, or setbacks. But never fear. Why is that? Probably because the word “fear” comes with a lot of baggage. Fear isn’t something that’s talked about openly, ever. It’s a sign of weakness or lack […]
An Engineer Overcomes her Fear of Public Speaking in One Year – Ep 119
Image by wavebreakmedia_micro on Freepik In this episode, I talk about Lu Ding, PE, PTOE, an Engineer who overcame her fear of public speaking in one year. I specifically discuss her ECSx talk at the Engineering Career Summit in New Orleans this past May. You will also here Lu’s talk in this episode and you can watch it at […]
How To Deal With The Stresses and Anxieties of Being An Engineer
Stress and anxiety are very common among engineers. This article includes a list of techniques that engineers can use to help manage their daily stresses and anxieties. At times, we have to deal with stresses and anxieties when many things happens all at once. When this happens, take a deep breath and try to find something to […]
